Heavy smoke shows no sign of letting up in Reno area

1:04 AM,
Aug. 29, 2013

Helen Gaulden

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Reno's smoky siege - six consecutive days of unhealthy air - is the longest such event since the area was inundated with smoke from hundreds of lightning fires burning throughout Northern California in late June and early July of 2008, a county health district official said.

During that event, there were seven days when the air in Reno was rated as unhealthy, with one day considered very unhealthy, said Daniel Inouye, branch chief of Washoe County District Health's Air Quality Division.

Still, folks five years ago got more of a break, with a day or two of decent air quality between the bad ones, ...